In This Guide:

Designing Digital Scholarship Projects: Selecting audio tools

Design principles & entry-level tools to begin developing digital scholarship projects

Audacity
Free, open source, cross-platform audio software
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Audacity is free, open source software.

Riverside Free Plan
Try 2 hours of multi-track recordings
Full suite of editing tools
Publish to Spotify
Unlimited Multi-track editing

ccMixter
Looking for music for a project like a video, video game or school project?
Search through our remix catalog using our Music Discovery Tool dig.ccMixter
Bensound
Free Music for Videos
Download our copyright safe music for use in your videos:
Youtube, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,...
You just have to give us attribution
Free Music Archive
Free Music Archive (FMA) offers free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world. Tens of millions of online visitors roam the FMA catalogue each month to find and download original songs for personal use or featured tracks in media projects. Tracks on FMA are featured in countless videos, podcasts, films, games, apps, commercials, documentaries, and more!